Jewish Law Annual Volume 14

<p>The volume contains ten articles, including a penetrating analysis of the application of Jewish price fraud law to the workings of the present-day marketplace. Diverse in their scope and focus, the articles address legal, historical, textual, comparative and conceptual questions.<br>The volume concludes with a survey of recent literature on biblical and Jewish law, and a chronicle section, which discusses recent Israeli and American court cases involving issues where Jewish law is of particular relevance, thereby making the <em>Annual</em> a journal of record.</p> Part 1 DOUBT, CHOICE AND CONVICTION: A COMPARISON OF THE KIM LI DOCTRINE AND PROBABILISM, HANINA BEN-MENAHEM; Chapter 2 HALAKHIC ALTERNATIVES IN IVF-PREGNANCIES: A SURVEY, YITZCHOK A. BREITOWITZ; Chapter 3 RECOVERY FOR FRIGHT, SHOCK AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS UNDER JEWISH LAW, AND SOME COMPARISONS TO THE COMMON LAW, IRWIN H. HAUT, zl; Chapter 4 AGENCY AND DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS: ON THE LEGAL METHODOLOGY OF MAIMONIDES' MISHNE TORAH, DAVID HENSHKE; Chapter 5 HALAKHA AND METZIUT (REALIA) IN MEDIEVAL ASHKENAZ: SURVEYING THE PARAMETERS AND DEFINING THE LIMITS, EPHRAIM KANARFOGEL; Chapter 6 ONAA AND THE OPERATION OF THE MODERN MARKETPLACE, AARON LEVINE; Chapter 7 REVIEW ARTICLE, EPHRAIM NISSAN; Chapter 8 THE CONTROVERSIES OF THE SAGES OF POLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: A Chapter IN THE HISTORY OF JEWISH LAW, ITS GENERAL RULES AND METHODS OF DECISION-MAKING, MEIR RAFFELD; Chapter 9 KINGS, COINAGE AND CONSTITUTIONALISM: NOTES ON A RESPONSUM OF NAHMANIDES, BERNARD SEPTIMUS; Chapter 10 ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CAPACITY TO PERFORM A LEGAL TASK AND THE CAPACITY TO APPOINT AN AGENT TO PERFORM IT, MICHAEL WYGODA; Part 2 CHRONICLE; Chapter 11 SOMETHING THERE IS THAT DOESN'T LOVE A WALL, MARTIN EDELMAN; Chapter 12 JEWISH LAW IN ISRAEL AND AROUND THE WORLD, DANIEL B. SINCLAIR; Part 3 SURVEY OF RECENT LITERATURE; Chapter 14 STYLE SHEET;